Vocabulary
What is ethos?
"In a diverse world, should racism be tolerated?" is an example of this
What is a rhetorical question?
The college students are eagerly looking forward to the relentless tuition increases each semester/quarter. This is an example of
What is irony?
"But more basically, I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the prophets of the eight century B.C. left their villages and carried their 'thus saith the Lord' far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco-Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town." - MLK, Jr.
This is an example of this rhetorical device
What is an allusion?
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Verbal irony; ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain.
What is sarcasm?
What is anaphora and parallelism?
What is personification?
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" is an example of this rhetorical device.
What is antithesis?
Rhetorical Analysis, Argument, and Synthesis
What are the essays on the AP Language and Composition exam?
An acknowledgement that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable. In a strong argument, this is usually accompanied by a refutation challenging the validity of the opposing argument.
What is concession?
"The Democrats proposed a new budget, but the Republicans opposed it" is an example of this type of sentence
What is a compound sentence?
"If at any one time of my life more than another, I was made to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery, that time was during the first six months of my stay with Mr. Covey" - Frederick Douglass
The words in italics exemplify use of this literary device.
What is a metaphor?
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" - JFK
What is chiasmus, or inverted parallelism?
In [his/her genre, optional exigence], [author] speaks on [brief argument summary] and employs the use of [devices/strategies] to convey to [specific audience] of [purpose].
A milder version of a word or phrase substituted in place of one considered to be too harsh or unpleasant.
What is an euphemism?
"Their goals are to raise awareness of the natural area, to build a walking path near the creek running through it, and to construct a nature center at the east end of the parking lot." This is an example of this grammatical structure.
What is parallel structure/parallelism?
"My thoughts would compel utterance; and there, with no audience but the Almighty, I would pour out my soul's complaint, in my rude way, with an apostrophe to the moving multitude of ships."
The word in italics reveal the use of this literary device.
What is metonymy?
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it." - Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray
What is a paradox?
Introduce context, subclaims, and thesis (thesis should directly answer the prompt); provide What evidence proves the subclaims; explain How the evidence proves your subclaim and thesis, and explain Why the argument matters on a broader level (link back to thesis).
What is the structure for an argument and synthesis paragraph?
Analyzing an issue, problem, or situation that creates urgency or prompts someone to write or speak.
What is exigence?
"In a day when movies seem more and more predictable, when novels tend to be plotless, baggy monsters or minimalist exercises in interior emotion, it's no surprise that sports has come to occupy an increasingly prominent place in the communal imagination" -Kakutani.
This is an example of this type of sentence
What is a periodic sentence?
As Frederick Douglass sailed on the slave ship, he spoke out to the ocean of other ships. . "You are freedom's swift-winged angels that fly round the world; I am confined in bands of iron! O, that I were free!"
This exaltation is an example of
What is an apostrophe?
In "How It Feels to Be Colored Me," Zora Neale Hurston states, "But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall in company with other bags, white, red and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small things priceless and worthless. . . " This is an example of what rhetorical device
What is an extended metaphor, or an analogy?
Prompt's assertion, your position, sub-claim with specific evidence, sub-claim with 2nd specific evidence, and counterargument with refutation.
What is the structure of an argument essay?